Protesters and resolutioners12/13/2023 ![]() This led to the formation of a Royalist party in the Church and the breach between them and their brethren was widened by what soon thereafter took place. The question between the two parties into which the once united band was now split, had its first rise in the suspicions of the sincerity of Charles II, that began to be entertained by some of the ministers, who blamed their brethren for admitting him to make solemn professions which all they knew of his conduct and character belied. The schism to which we refer is that known in history as the Resolutioners and the Protesters, which had arisen in 1651. The second was a decay of that spirit of pure patriotism that had animated the Scots in the days of Alexander Henderson, and the immediate consequence of which was a deplorable disunion in their ranks at a time when it behoved them above all things to be united. The first cause was the almost idolatrous loyalty which the Scots bore to the House of Stuart, and from which all their dire experience of the meanness, fickleness, and perfidy which had characterized the recent sovereigns of that house had not been able to wean them. This ecstasy had its source in two causes, and a brief explanation of these will help to make clearer the course which events took afterwards. We have seen the extravagant joy with which the king’s return was hailed in Scotland. We have seen the first outburst of that cloud that descended upon England with the advent of Charles II in the expulsion of the 2,000 Nonconformists but it was on the northern kingdom that the tempest was destined to break in greatest fury, and to rage the longest. There had been a pause in their scheming during the administration of Cromwell, but no sooner had the head of that great ruler been laid in the grave, and a Stuart again seen on the throne of England, than the Fathers knew that their hour was come, and straightway resumed their plots against the religion and liberties of Great Britain. ![]() The Jesuits had anew betaken themselves to spinning that same thread which had been so suddenly and rudely severed on the scaffold which the 30th of January, 1649, saw erected before the Palace of Whitehall. ![]() Chapter 20: Scotland-Middleton’s Tyranny-Act RecissoryĮxtravagant Loyalty of the Scots-A Schism in the Ranks of the Scottish Presbyterians-Resolutioners and Protesters-Charles’s Purpose to Restore Prelacy-Clarendon-Maitland-James Sharp-The “Judas of the Kirk of Scotland”-The Scottish Parliament of 1661-Decline of the Scottish Presbyterians-Acts passed in Parliament-Act of Supremacy-Lays the Scottish Kirk at the King’s Feet-The Oath of Allegiance-The Act Recissory-Tyranny and Revolution-Sudden Destruction of Scottish Liberties-Legislation and Drunkenness ![]()
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